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e climbed into the dinghy that was trailing along behind and began rowing to the Sea Monster. I sat down on the rock and I had to keep swallowing, because I felt as if my heart were bumping up against my throat. To save time, before the man landed, Jerry started to shout what had happened. There wasn't much left of his voice, but he managed to do it somehow. "We've been here all night," he called huskily. "We came out to explore this thing, and our boat got away, and our little brother fell off the top and is hurt awfully, and" (this was just as the man climbed ashore on the sea-weedy rocks) "and we'd always called this place the 'Sea Monster' because it looked like one, but now we know it _is_ one." The man was looking at us very hard, particularly at me, and he said: "The 'Sea Monster'!" Then he looked again and said "Oh!" He was a nice tall man, with a brown, squarish face, quite thin, and twinkly blue eyes and a lot of dark hair that blew around like Jerry's. He looked from one to the other of us and nodded his head to himself. I suppose we did look very queer,--quite dirty, and Jerry with the tin-foil-buckled belt still around him and no shirt; and my bloomers dangling down like a Turkish person's because of the elastics having burst when I fell down. "It seems," said our man, "that I have arrived in the nick of time to perform a daring rescue." He said it in a funny make-believe way, as if he were doing one of our plays, and then suddenly the twinklyness went out of his eyes and he said: "But take me to Gregory." If we hadn't been so perfectly bursting with thankfulness and so tired of shouting and the cold and the whole hideous place, we should have wondered how on earth he knew Greg's name, because neither of us had mentioned it. But we didn't think of it then, and just snatched his hands and pulled him over the rocks, trying to tell him a little how glad we were to see him. When he saw Greg, his face grew quite different--very sorry, and not twinkly at all and he went down on his knees (he couldn't have stood up in the back of the cave) and he said: "Poor old man!" And then, "I wonder who had the worst night of it?" We said, "Greg, of course." But our man said, "I wonder." Then he changed again, and instead of being all sorry and gentle, he got quite commanding and very quick. "Chris, you stay here," he said. "Gerald, come with me,--and here, put this on." He pulled off his gr
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